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No. 241,201. Patented May 10, I881.

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UNITED STATES To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FAUTZ, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pin Flower-Holders, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to an improved construction of holder for securing natural or artificial flowers in the hair or dress of the wearer; and it consists in forming a rigid tapering holder of two wire rings of different sizes, united as herein described, and provided with a pin for securing the holder in its desired position.

I am aware that an elastic socket made of wire has been patented for holding lead-penoils; but its adaptability to objects of different sizes is merelynominal, and its mode of attachment with a double pin or pin and eye requires an extension of the socket which necessitates the use of very slender wire in its construction to permit it to be pulled out endwise to clasp the pin; and my device being intended to provide something more rigid and firm to hold flowers in their required position, I have devised the tapering form for the holder as preferable to the slight adjustability afforded by any elastic construction.

The pin I employ being in general use for such purposes, I only claim it in combination with the particular form of holder I have devised.

holder supporting a bouquet upon the lapel of a coat; Fig. 4, the two wire rings united by Fig. 2 shows the two rings united by a single wire running from one to the other; and Fig. 3, a mode of connecting the rings by leading a loop of wire from the first ringto and through the second ring, and thence back to and around one side of the first.

In the drawings annexed, Figure 1 shows my PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES A. FAUTZ, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FLOWER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,201, dated May 10, 1881. Application filed September 24, 1830. (No model.)

In all the views the attaching or supporting pin is bent downward from the upper and larger ring toward or beyond the lower, the pin in Fig. 3 being shown very long, as is required for insertion in a head-dress.

The advantage of my construction lies in the fact that the stems of flowers are rough and uneven in shape, for which reason they are better jammed into a tapering than a cylindrical holder, and being formed of two separated rings, the stems have room to expand a little between the two, and are thus held much more securely than they would be in asmooth metallic socket, or one unprovided with openings between the upper and lower portions. The tapering form avoids the need of any elasticity in the operation of the holder, and thusenables meto make the holder of heavy or stiff wire, which holds the flowers upright upon the dress when desired, or in any exact position that may be preferred upon the head. The open space between the-rings also affords a means for ap plying a string to secure a small stem or small bunch to the wires uniting the top and bottom rings.

Having thus described my invention, I claim the same as follows:

The flower-holder constructed of .two rings of different sizes united by wire in the manner described, and provided with a pin, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereto set my hand this 6th dayof Septenr ber, 1880, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. A. FAUTZ.

Witnesses THos. S. CRANE, O. T. ZIEGLER. 

